Butter-pail



,(No Model.)

I". MESEROLE. BUTTER PAIL.

PatentedApr l, 1884.

UrviTnn STATES PATENT Urrrcn.

ISAAC MESEROLE, OF SPRINGVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

BUTTER-PA'I L.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 296,034, dated April 1, 1884.

Application filed January 21, 1984.

T aZZ whom it may concern..-

Be it known that I, ISAAC MESEROLE, a citizen oftheUnited States, residing at Springville, in the county of Susquehanna and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Butter-Pails; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the inven tion, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

It has been found by experience that butter can be preserved in a good sweet condition much longer in a tin or metallic vessel than in a wooden one; but one objection to the use of a tin vessel has been the difficulty in constructing a cheap, strong, durable, easily-adjusted air-tight cover, and the object of my invention is to remedy that diffiult-y.

It, consists in the combination of a wooden lid and the metallic body and their means of attachment, as more fully hereinafter described and claimed. 1

My improvement is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a plan view, Fig. 2 an elevation, and Fig. 3 a detached view, of a part of the device.

In the drawings, A is the body of the pail or vessel, made oftin; and B, the wooden cover.

The cover is provided with cleats c c", of the 1 usual form. It is also provided on its upper surface with lugs d d d having inclined (No model.)

are metal rods bent into the required shape and soldered or otherwise secured-to the body of the vessel.

E is a swinging latch attached to the eye of a rod, f, secured to the body of the package. Latch Erides upon the inclined face of lug d", and is engaged by the teeth of a rack, G, secured to the cleat c. The rack G (shown in Fig. 3) is inclined slightly in a direction opk posite to the inclination of lug 01 In place of the rack-bar, shown extending out from the cleat, a rack may be formed in the cleat.

In operation the cover is put on by first sliding the lugs (2 under the hooks D. The latch E is then raised, placed on and forced up the incline of the lug (Z and the end of the latch made to engage with teeth on the rack G. By these means the cover may be quickly pressed down very tightly on the vessel, making the package practically air-tight.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. The combination, in a butter or other package, of the metallic body and wooden cover, the body provided with hooks and a latch and the cover with the inclined lugs and rack, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. The cover of a package provided with a cleat and rack and a bearing, such as (P, in combination with the body provided with a suitable latch adapted to engage with said rack, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ISAAC MESEROLE.

Witnesses:

J. B. MEsERoLE, G. A. HUNGERFORD. 

